The $cientologists aren't the only ones who did this sort of thing.
The way the New York Times bestseller list works (or at least used to work, not sure what they do now), is they get the sales figures from a few stores. Since they are (or used to be) the same stores all the time, intrepid authors/publishers used to go out and buy as many copies from those few stores that they could find. Instant bestseller list, which becomes self-perpetuating as people buy it because it was on the list.
IIRC the books usually were those non-fiction business fad books (How to Drive Your Company to Just Unbelievable Success by Shouting Slogans at your Salesforce kinds of things).
Of course, the best person to teach a computer to feel is still William Shatner. His powers also work on alien women, as long as they're attractive and don't wear much clothing.
Really going out on a limb there. "I've said it before and I'll say it again"? Hell, EVERYONE'S been saying that for the past 200 years, you really think you're fighting the power?
Well, some chip company [intel.com] thought highly enough of the designs of that chip to have purchased the team that was in the process of designing the next generation of Alphas (EV8). The Alpha chip was a legacy of Digital, and continues to be the speed demon for single and multi-chip systems.
Well, sure, the Alpha's an impressive piece of technology; I wasn't criticizing it, but rather the silliness of a non-chip company buying it. It makes sense for Intel to acquire it, but why Compaq?
Why? How is Dell superior to Compaq, HP, IBM, or any other PC packager?
In my experience (helping support a few hundred workstations), and in the opinions of just about all my coworkers, Dell just makes good machines. They're reliable and they're easy to repair and troubleshoot, primarily because they tend not to use shoddy and/or non-standard parts.
Huh? What exactly did Compaq do with DEC's stuff that was so great? I mean, they're not a chip designer, what on earth are they going to do with the Alpha?
As far as I can tell, HP/Compaq is a merging of an average PC manufacturer and a mediocre one, and I'm not sure exactly what they're going to do together that they couldn't do separately.
As for me, I've decided to buy my computers from either a small screwdriver factory, or Apple. The only large PC manufacturer I'd feel comfortable buying from is Dell.
Right, those of who can't find jobs will simply have to wait a little until they die in the streets, and that will be a good thing because it will clear out the underbrush.
And anyone with the right skills knows that they can get hired, because the managers who make hiring decisions are just utterly brilliant in their jobs, and know so much about IT that they can instantly tell who knows what they're doing. And if you can't find a job, that just means you're not as incredibly smart as the person who wrote the parent post.
The only thing is Id just isn't far enough head to deserve all the press they get. I'm not knocking them; they do make the best 3d game engines around. But their competitors aren't nearly as behind as people would like to think.
Usually you can't tell which engine a 3rd party game uses, anyway.
VERY nice article. Goes into greater depth than most CRM articles that make it to slashdot, or at least it seemed that way to me.
Usually I avoid believing much of anything I read in Reason, as it usually just prints libertarian propaganda, but this time I'm glad I checked it out.
Sure, the average person on the street does not know who Alan Cox is, but amongst those who are technologically aware, he is known and his opinion carries some weight.
Uh, in kernel maintenance maybe, but why should I listen to what he says about legal issues?
Well, based on the fact that he misspelled whackos and capitalized coal for no apparent reason, I'm sure he's on some ideological fringe or another, cut off from reality. It's the unnecessary capitalizations that are the best indicator of the fringies, for some reason...
Not really. General Motors and Ford both own significant shares in Japanese car companies.
It's that neverending recession of theirs. Despite the insistences on both sides that Japanese companies are just that more efficient and successful than American ones, the Japanese recession is already over a decade old.
If I owned Nintendo, I would have definitely cashed out; they're just not worth 25 billion, and a lot of their money is from the Pokemon franchise (and the chances are very slim that they'll get a new fad to match that anytime soon).
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The $cientologists aren't the only ones who did this sort of thing.
The way the New York Times bestseller list works (or at least used to work, not sure what they do now), is they get the sales figures from a few stores. Since they are (or used to be) the same stores all the time, intrepid authors/publishers used to go out and buy as many copies from those few stores that they could find. Instant bestseller list, which becomes self-perpetuating as people buy it because it was on the list.
IIRC the books usually were those non-fiction business fad books (How to Drive Your Company to Just Unbelievable Success by Shouting Slogans at your Salesforce kinds of things).
How about a game that delivers painful shocks if you're tense. Now that's motivation.
Of course, the best person to teach a computer to feel is still William Shatner. His powers also work on alien women, as long as they're attractive and don't wear much clothing.
Really going out on a limb there. "I've said it before and I'll say it again"? Hell, EVERYONE'S been saying that for the past 200 years, you really think you're fighting the power?
The problem isn't the storyline per se; it's the complete destruction of continuity. It just makes a lot of the previous episodes not make sense.
Hmmm, I think the whole Skinner/Armin Tamzarian thing was the turning point.
Well, some chip company [intel.com] thought highly enough of the designs of that chip to have purchased the team that was in the process of designing the next generation of Alphas (EV8). The Alpha chip was a legacy of Digital, and continues to be the speed demon for single and multi-chip systems.
Well, sure, the Alpha's an impressive piece of technology; I wasn't criticizing it, but rather the silliness of a non-chip company buying it. It makes sense for Intel to acquire it, but why Compaq?
Why? How is Dell superior to Compaq, HP, IBM, or any other PC packager?
In my experience (helping support a few hundred workstations), and in the opinions of just about all my coworkers, Dell just makes good machines. They're reliable and they're easy to repair and troubleshoot, primarily because they tend not to use shoddy and/or non-standard parts.
Huh? What exactly did Compaq do with DEC's stuff that was so great? I mean, they're not a chip designer, what on earth are they going to do with the Alpha?
As far as I can tell, HP/Compaq is a merging of an average PC manufacturer and a mediocre one, and I'm not sure exactly what they're going to do together that they couldn't do separately.
As for me, I've decided to buy my computers from either a small screwdriver factory, or Apple. The only large PC manufacturer I'd feel comfortable buying from is Dell.
Right, those of who can't find jobs will simply have to wait a little until they die in the streets, and that will be a good thing because it will clear out the underbrush.
And anyone with the right skills knows that they can get hired, because the managers who make hiring decisions are just utterly brilliant in their jobs, and know so much about IT that they can instantly tell who knows what they're doing. And if you can't find a job, that just means you're not as incredibly smart as the person who wrote the parent post.
Attack of the Claustrophobics.
I thought polar bears also subsisted on canadians...
The only thing is Id just isn't far enough head to deserve all the press they get. I'm not knocking them; they do make the best 3d game engines around. But their competitors aren't nearly as behind as people would like to think.
Usually you can't tell which engine a 3rd party game uses, anyway.
From the reviews I've read, Woodhaven.
If I was a baseball fan, that would have hurt...
Now I HAVE to see the movie. Just found out that in it he's from the same tiny, obscure neighborhood in Queens that I am...
Come on, the GPL is NOT that hard. Look how many verbally-challenged programmers and engineers understand it.
If I worked at Sun I'd drop OpenOffice in a heartbeat.
"Linux Installed on Standard PC"--STOP THE PRESSES!
VERY nice article. Goes into greater depth than most CRM articles that make it to slashdot, or at least it seemed that way to me.
Usually I avoid believing much of anything I read in Reason, as it usually just prints libertarian propaganda, but this time I'm glad I checked it out.
Sure, the average person on the street does not know who Alan Cox is, but amongst those who are technologically aware, he is known and his opinion carries some weight.
Uh, in kernel maintenance maybe, but why should I listen to what he says about legal issues?
It was sarcasm. I was mocking the people on slashdot who constantly claim how OSS is a better business model.
I hope this shows the corporate world how profitable open source can be.
By releasing the source code to open office Sun stands to make MILLIONS on this.
Once again the open source model triumphs in the marketplace.
Wilkes University?
Well, based on the fact that he misspelled whackos and capitalized coal for no apparent reason, I'm sure he's on some ideological fringe or another, cut off from reality. It's the unnecessary capitalizations that are the best indicator of the fringies, for some reason...
Not really. General Motors and Ford both own significant shares in Japanese car companies.
It's that neverending recession of theirs. Despite the insistences on both sides that Japanese companies are just that more efficient and successful than American ones, the Japanese recession is already over a decade old.
If I owned Nintendo, I would have definitely cashed out; they're just not worth 25 billion, and a lot of their money is from the Pokemon franchise (and the chances are very slim that they'll get a new fad to match that anytime soon).